America in Prophecy by Ellen White [Modern Version]
America’s peculiar origins and hegemonic impact in world affairs stand undisputed. As a superpower birthed from Europe, her eminent history has been celebrated. Foretold since antiquity, a myriad of repressions, revolutions and reforms inspired the first band of pilgrims to settle on a new promised land of liberty. This book enables the reader to understand America’s unique destiny and commanding role while besieged by gross spiritual and political machinations. Clearly, this reading lifts the veil from past events molding America and presaging her cooperation to undermine the very values once cherished. America’s peculiar origins and hegemonic impact in world affairs stand undisputed. As a superpower birthed from Europe, her eminent history has been celebrated. Foretold since antiquity, a myriad of repressions, revolutions and reforms inspired the first band of pilgrims to settle on a new promised land of liberty. This book enables the reader to understand America’s unique destiny and commanding role while besieged by gross spiritual and political machinations. Clearly, this reading lifts the veil from past events molding America and presaging her cooperation to undermine the very values once cherished.
them to His first coming in humiliation as a sacrifice for the sins of men, he taught them also of His second coming as a king and deliverer. "Jesus of Nazareth, the true Messiah," he said, "whose hands and feet were pierced, who was brought like a lamb to the slaughter, who was the Man of Sorrows and acquainted with grief, who after the scepter was taken from Judah, and the legislative power from between his feet, came the first time; shall come the second time in the clouds of heaven, and with the trump of the Archangel" (Joseph Wolff, Researches and Missionary Labors, page 62) "and shall stand upon the Mount of Olives; and that dominion, once consigned to Adam over the creation, and forfeited by him (Genesis 1:26; 3:17), shall be given to Jesus. He shall be king over all the earth. The groanings and lamentations of the creation shall cease, but songs of praises and thanksgivings shall be heard. ... When Jesus comes in the glory of His Father, with the holy angels,... the dead believers shall rise first. 1 Thessalonians 4:16; 1 Corinthians 15:32. This is what we Christians call the first resurrection. Then the animal kingdom shall change its nature (Isaiah 11:6-9), and be subdued unto Jesus. Psalm 8. Universal peace shall prevail."-- Journal of the Rev. Joseph Wolff, pages 378, 379. "The Lord again shall look down upon the earth, and say, 'Behold, it is very good.'"-- Ibid., page 294. Wolff believed the coming of the Lord to be at hand, his interpretation of the prophetic periods placing the great consummation within a very few years of the time pointed out by Miller. To those who urged from the scripture, "Of that day and hour knoweth no man," that men are to know nothing concerning the nearness of the advent, Wolff replied: "Did our Lord say that that day and hour should never be known? Did He not give us signs of the times, in order that we may know at least the approach of His coming, as one knows the approach of the summer by the fig tree putting forth its leaves? Matthew 24:32. Are we never to know that period, whilst He Himself exhorteth us not only to read Daniel the prophet, but to understand it? and in that very Daniel, where it is said that the words were shut up to the time of the end (which was the case in his time), and that 'many shall run to and fro' (a Hebrew expression for observing and thinking upon the time), 'and knowledge' (regarding that time) 'shall be increased.' Daniel 12:4. Besides this, our Lord does not intend to say by this, that the approach of the time shall not be known, but that the exact 'day and hour knoweth no man.' Enough, He does say, shall be known by the signs of the times, to induce us to prepare for His coming, as Noah prepared the ark."--Wolff, Researches and Missionary Labors, pages 404, 405. 269
Concerning the popular system of interpreting, or misinterpreting, the Scriptures, Wolff wrote: "The greater part of the Christian church have swerved from the plain sense of Scripture, and have turned to the phantomizing system of the Buddhists, who believe that the future happiness of mankind will consist in moving about in the air, and suppose that when they are reading Jews they must understand Gentiles; and when they read Jerusalem, they must understand the church; and if it is said earth, it means sky; and for coming of the Lord they must understand the progress of the missionary societies; and going up to the mountain of the Lord's house, signifies a grand class meeting of Methodists." --Journal of the Rev. Joseph Wolff, page 96. During the twenty-four years from 1821 to 1845, Wolff traveled extensively: in Africa, visiting Egypt and Abyssinia; in Asia, traversing Palestine, Syria, Persia, Bokhara, and India. He also visited the United States, on the journey thither preaching on the island of Saint Helena. He arrived in New York in August, 1837; and, after speaking in that city, he preached in Philadelphia and Baltimore, and finally proceeded to Washington. Here, he says, "on a motion brought forward by the ex-President, John Quincy Adams, in one of the houses of Congress, the House unanimously granted to me the use of the Congress Hall for a lecture, which I delivered on a Saturday, honoured with the presence of all the members of Congress, and also of the bishop of Virginia, and of the clergy and citizens of Washington. The same honour was granted to me by the members of the government of New Jersey and Pennsylvania, in whose presence I delivered lectures on my researches in Asia, and also on the personal reign of Jesus Christ."-- Ibid., pages 398, 399. Dr. Wolff traveled in the most barbarous countries without the protection of any European authority, enduring many hardships and surrounded with countless perils. He was bastinadoed and starved, sold as a slave, and three times condemned to death. He was beset by robbers, and sometimes nearly perished from thirst. Once he was stripped of all that he possessed and left to travel hundreds of miles on foot through the mountains, the snow beating in his face and his naked feet benumbed by contact with the frozen ground. When warned against going unarmed among savage and hostile tribes, he declared himself "provided with arms"-- "prayer, zeal for Christ, and confidence in His help." "I am also," he said, "provided with the love of God and my neighbor in my heart, and the Bible is 270
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them to His first com<strong>in</strong>g <strong>in</strong> humiliation as a sacrifice for the s<strong>in</strong>s of men, he taught them also<br />
of His second com<strong>in</strong>g as a k<strong>in</strong>g and deliverer.<br />
"Jesus of Nazareth, the true Messiah," he said, "whose hands and feet were pierced,<br />
who was brought like a lamb to the slaughter, who was the Man of Sorrows and acqua<strong>in</strong>ted<br />
with grief, who after the scepter was taken from Judah, and the legislative power from<br />
between his feet, came the first time; shall come the second time <strong>in</strong> the clouds of heaven,<br />
and with the trump of the Archangel" (Joseph Wolff, Researches and Missionary Labors, page<br />
62) "and shall stand upon the Mount of Olives; and that dom<strong>in</strong>ion, once consigned to Adam<br />
over the creation, and forfeited <strong>by</strong> him (Genesis 1:26; 3:17), shall be given to Jesus. He shall<br />
be k<strong>in</strong>g over all the earth. The groan<strong>in</strong>gs and lamentations of the creation shall cease, but<br />
songs of praises and thanksgiv<strong>in</strong>gs shall be heard. ... When Jesus comes <strong>in</strong> the glory of His<br />
Father, with the holy angels,... the dead believers shall rise first. 1 Thessalonians 4:16; 1<br />
Cor<strong>in</strong>thians 15:32. This is what we Christians call the first resurrection. Then the animal<br />
k<strong>in</strong>gdom shall change its nature (Isaiah 11:6-9), and be subdued unto Jesus. Psalm 8. Universal<br />
peace shall prevail."-- Journal of the Rev. Joseph Wolff, pages 378, 379. "The Lord aga<strong>in</strong> shall<br />
look down upon the earth, and say, 'Behold, it is very good.'"-- Ibid., page 294.<br />
Wolff believed the com<strong>in</strong>g of the Lord to be at hand, his <strong>in</strong>terpretation of the prophetic<br />
periods plac<strong>in</strong>g the great consummation with<strong>in</strong> a very few years of the time po<strong>in</strong>ted out <strong>by</strong><br />
Miller. To those who urged from the scripture, "Of that day and hour knoweth no man," that<br />
men are to know noth<strong>in</strong>g concern<strong>in</strong>g the nearness of the advent, Wolff replied: "Did our Lord<br />
say that that day and hour should never be known? Did He not give us signs of the times, <strong>in</strong><br />
order that we may know at least the approach of His com<strong>in</strong>g, as one knows the approach of<br />
the summer <strong>by</strong> the fig tree putt<strong>in</strong>g forth its leaves? Matthew 24:32. Are we never to know<br />
that period, whilst He Himself exhorteth us not only to read Daniel the prophet, but to<br />
understand it? and <strong>in</strong> that very Daniel, where it is said that the words were shut up to the<br />
time of the end (which was the case <strong>in</strong> his time), and that 'many shall run to and fro' (a Hebrew<br />
expression for observ<strong>in</strong>g and th<strong>in</strong>k<strong>in</strong>g upon the time), 'and knowledge' (regard<strong>in</strong>g that time)<br />
'shall be <strong>in</strong>creased.' Daniel 12:4. Besides this, our Lord does not <strong>in</strong>tend to say <strong>by</strong> this, that the<br />
approach of the time shall not be known, but that the exact 'day and hour knoweth no man.'<br />
Enough, He does say, shall be known <strong>by</strong> the signs of the times, to <strong>in</strong>duce us to prepare for His<br />
com<strong>in</strong>g, as Noah prepared the ark."--Wolff, Researches and Missionary Labors, pages 404,<br />
405.<br />
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